Synonyms for shrimp
ʃrɪmpshrimp

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1. shrimpnoun

   Synonyms:
   prawn

2. shrimpnoun

   to fish for shrimp

   Synonyms:
   prawn

3. shrimpnoun

   the flesh of the crustaceans

   Synonyms:
   prawn

4. shrimpnoun

   a small, puny or unimportant person

   Synonyms:
   prawn

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1. runt, shrimp, peewee, half-pintnoun

   disparaging terms for small people

   Synonyms:
   runt, prawn, peewee, peewit, pewee, wood pewee, half-pint, pewit

2. prawn, shrimpnoun

   any of various edible decapod crustaceans

   Synonyms:
   peewee, prawn, half-pint, runt

3. shrimpverb

   small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible

   Synonyms:
   peewee, prawn, half-pint, runt

4. shrimpverb

   fish for shrimp

Matched Categories

1. • Fish
   • Seafood

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1. List of paraphrases for "shrimp":

   shrimps, prawn, crevette, squirt

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1. Pham Thi Lai:

   Plastic bags have been waste here since the first day we started using them, they put everything in a plastic bag. If they're preserving shrimp or preserving fish, they put it in a plastic bag.

2. Jeff Ludwin:

   Preservatives and other additives are often added to frozen varieties to help maintain their quality, scallops and shrimp, for instance, are treated with sulfites to prevent them from deteriorating.

3. Maya Rudolph:

   Look, if Dr. Fauci says a vaccine is good, I will be the first in line like it's an Anne Taylor sample sale, but if President Trump says it's safe, I will throw that vaccine in the trash like last week's shrimp pad thai.

4. Somsak Piriyayota:

   We have a government policy to reclaim forests - from investors, but not from poor people. With shrimp farmers, it's generally investors.

5. Martin Smith:

   Their compatriots included such beasts as Wiwaxia, a slug covered in leaf-like scales and towering spines; Anomalocaris, resembling a cross between a lobster and a can-opener; Nectocaris, a boggle-eyed two-armed squid, and Opabinia, which looks like a shrimp that swallowed a vacuum cleaner.